The effect of education on religion
Subtitle: evidence from compulsory schooling laws
By: Daniel M. Hungerman
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16973; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16973.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "For over a century, social scientists have debated how educational attainment impacts religious belief.  In this paper, I use Canadian compulsory schooling laws to identify the relationship between completed schooling and later religiosity.  I find that higher levels of education lead to lower levels of religious participation later in life.  An additional year of education leads to a 4-percentage-point decline in the likelihood that an individual identifies with any religious tradition; the estimates suggest that increases in schooling can explain most of the large rise in non-affiliation in Canada in recent decades"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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